Fourth Interview Questions

1.  Who do you plan to interview?  What is this person's area of expertise?

I plan to interview my mom, who is an anesthesiologist with over 20 years of experience, or Dr. Edgar Guerero, who has also been an anesthesiologist for 20+ years.

2.  Post 20 open-ended questions you want to ask an expert in the field concerning your senior project. Your focus should be finding answers to your EQ.

1. What do you enjoy most about your job?
2. What do you dislike about your job?
3. What are the most common surgeries you help with?
4. How often would you say complications arise while working?
5. What are typically the most difficult patients to care for? Why?
6. What has been the most difficult aspect of anesthesia to learn?
7. What drugs do you use most often?
8. How often do new drugs replace older ones?
9. How important would you say the medications in a procedure are?
10. What are the main monitors you use? What are they for?
11. To you, what are the most important monitors?
12. What key factors do you pay attention to when creating your plan for anesthesia for each patient?
13. On average, how do patients with an alcoholic history react to anesthesia? drug users? smokers?
14. How important is it to know about the patient's history and background?
15. How do you go about not knowing a patient's full history and background in the state of emergency?
16. What are a few memorable patients that you can recall?
17. Being that anesthesiologist do not get to spend as much time with patients as other doctors, how do you establish a great doctor-patient relationship within the short span of time before surgery?
18. What do you believe is the main duty of an anesthesiologist?
19. Which of these three do you believe is the best way an anesthesiologist can ensure a patient's safety and comfort for surgery: knowing your drugs, monitoring the patient, or knowing patient history and background? Why?
20. What advice would you give someone, like myself, who is considering becoming an anesthesiologist in the future?

Blog 14: Third Interview Preparation

EQ: How does an anesthesiologist best ensure a patient's safety and comfort for surgery?

1.  Who do you plan to interview?  What is this person's area of expertise?

I plan to interview an anesthesiologist at UCLA by the name of Dr. Zhuang T. Fang. He is a clinical professor at UCLA's medical school.

2.  Verify that you have called your interviewee to schedule an interview.  What is the date and time of the interview? 

I have not yet secured an exact date, as schedules are still being worked out.

3.  Phrase an open-ended question that will help you find research resources that would help to answer the EQ.

How does an anesthesiologist best ensure a patient's safety and comfort for surgery?
What do you do in your daily routine to ensure that your patients are safe and comfortable?

4.  Phrase an open-ended question that will help you think about other useful activities you might do to help you answer the EQ (IC2, possible experts to talk to, etc).

Could I have the opportunity to observe one of your lectures sometime?
I plan on taking a CPR course soon, what other activity would you suggest that could help me further my research and understanding?
Do you recommend any text for me to look into?
Who do you recommend I interview next?

5.  Phrase two open-ended questions that help you to understand your interviewee's perspective on an aspect of your EQ. 

Have you always wanted to be an anesthesiologist?
Why did you choose anesthesia?
Describe a typical day at work.
What do you enjoy most about your job?
You are a professor? Why did you decide to teach?
What do you teach your students?
What advice do you have for students looking to pursue this specialty?
What mistakes or experiences have you encountered over the years do you wish you had known before?
What are some of your most memorable experiences?
How does an anesthesiologist best ensure a patient's safety and comfort for surgery?
What do you do in your daily routine to ensure that your patients are safe and comfortable?
Would I be able to have the opportunity to observe one of your lectures sometime?